Pubs want more protection for Monsanto

[Luddly Neddite]

House Republicans Push To Include Monsanto Protection Act In New Spending Bill

House Republicans will include an extension of the so-called Monsanto Protection Act in the spending bill designed to avert a government shutdown, according to text of the legislation released Wednesday by House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.).

The Monsanto measure was originally enacted into law in March by being slipped into the previous spending resolution, which is now set to expire.

Since its quiet passage, the Monsanto Protection Act has become a target of intense opposition. Monsanto is a global seed and herbicide company that specializes in genetically modified crops. The law effectively prevents judges from placing injunctions on genetically modified seeds even if they are deemed unsafe. Monsanto has argued that it is unfair to single out the company in the nickname for the law, which is officially known as the Farmer Assurance Provision, when other major agribusiness players also support it.

Doesn't matter if you're R or D, if you love Putin and hate Obama, we all know that Monsanto will be the death of us if we let it and the Repubs will sell us out for lobbyist checks in their pockets.

Write your congress person and BEG them to fight this, to fight Monsanto.

 

[Dot Com]

quelle surprise. Republicorp running interference for a company that might be peddling harmful products.

 

[squeeze berry]

quelle surprise, two drama queens ^

 

[Moonglow]

Many farmers I know are not that happy with being forced to use Monsanto seed or the registration of cattle. We need corporate money out of legislation to stop bias laws giving companies advantages in the market.

 

[Harry Dresden]

quelle suprise. Republicorp running interference for a company that might be peddling harmful products.

that might be?......

 

[hjmick]

Monsanto contributions in the House go overwhelmingly to Republican candidates, though they do include Democrats. In the Senate they are pretty evenly split:

Monsanto Co Contributions to Federal Candidates | OpenSecrets


Neither party has clean hands, but the Republicans could use some LAVA...

 

[whitehall]

Look around radicals. Even though he might be on the campaign trail or playing golf, Barry Hussein is still president not Vlad Putin.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

quelle surprise, two drama queens ^

With the help of SCOTUS and the lobbyists who pass out checks to our congress, Monsanto is quietly running the family farmer out of business with enormous lawsuits. Then, big business buys that family's farm and adds it to thousands of other they have legally stolen.

US farmers challenging Monsanto patent claims appeal to Supreme Court ? RT USA
Evil Monsanto Aggressively Sues Farmers for Saving Seeds | Alternet
Prosecuting American Farmers: Monsanto's Investigations, Coerced Settlements & Lawsuits - Chapter 3 from Monsanto vs. U.S. Farmers - Center for Food Safety 12jan05

There are some scientists (You can look up the meaning of the word "science") -- Some who believe Monsanto's screwing with seeds and pesticides has contributed to the death of the honey bees. I realize that this will come as a surprise to you but we need bees to pollinate most of what we eat.

Agri-giants trying to solve bee deaths. Some believe they caused them. : Business
Death of the Bees. Genetically Modified Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America | Global Research
New Research Connects Bee Colony Collapse Disorder to Pesticide | TIME.com

Dramatic enough for you?

 

[Katzndogz]

Golden rice is a variety of Oryza sativa rice produced through genetic engineering to biosynthesize beta-carotene, a precursor of vitamin A, in the edible parts of rice. The research was conducted with the goal of producing a fortified food to be grown and consumed in areas with a shortage of dietary vitamin A, a deficiency which is estimated to kill 670,000 children under 5 each year.

Golden rice differs from its parental strain by the addition of three beta-carotene biosynthesis genes. The scientific details of the rice were first published in Science in 2000, the product of an eight-year project by Ingo Potrykus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg. At the time of publication, golden rice was considered a significant breakthrough in biotechnology, as the researchers had engineered an entire biosynthetic pathway.

In 2005, a new variety called Golden Rice 2, which produces up to 23 times more beta-carotene than the original golden rice, was announced. Although golden rice was developed as a humanitarian tool, it has met with significant opposition from environmental and anti-globalization activists.

Wacky libs want to increase that figure of 670,000 dead to what a million or two million?